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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIIN ORMEROD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN SODAFOUNTAIN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VALVE-OPERATING MECHANISM FOR SYRUP-JARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,767, dated March16, 1897.

Application led August 27, 1895. Serial No. 560,637. (No model.)

To otZZ whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JOHN ORMEROD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a certain newand useful Improvement in Valve-OperatingMechanism for Syrup-.I ars, of which the following is a specieation.

Heretofore the operating devices for the valves or valve-rods ofsyrup-jars in sodawater fountains were located above or below the casecontaining the syrup-j ars. Such arrangements were very inconvenient anddifficult to operate.

My invention is designed to overcome these objections and to generallyimprove the valveoperating mechanism; and it consists in the noveldevices and combinations of devices hereinafter more fully set forth,and pointed out by the claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which-Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a soda-water fountain,part of the front wall being broken away to show two syrupjars and thevalve-operating mechanism 3 Fig. 2, a cross-section through one of thejars, and Fig. 3 an enlarged sectional view of the valve-operatingmechanism.

A is the casing, and B B the syrup-jars, having measuring-chambers B'.Each' jar is provided with valves ct and a and a valverod a2, which rodis tubular, so as to provide an air-passage for venting themeasuringchamber. These jars and their valves are of the well-knownconstruction employed in the Matthews apparatus.

To operate the valves, I provide each valverod with a head b, which ispreferably screwed onto the rod, as shown, and each head has anextension recessed at ZJ. In front of each jar is an upright rod c,working in guides c' and provided with a head c2, which enters recessZ7. The lifting-rods c of two adjacent jars are independently operatedby the rocking lever d, carried by a spindle d', to which is rigidlysecured a key or handle d2. Spindle d' passes through a sleeve d3, setinto an opening in the casing, and said sleeve is secured in place by acap d4, screwed onto the outer end of the sleeve and setting against thecasing. The upper edges of the two arms of the rocking lever arepreferably curved so as to form a cam-surface, thus allowing a more easymovement.u To insure the lever returning to its normal position, Iprovide a plate or platform e, which is pressed upwardly againstshoulders d5 d5 on lever d by a spiral spring e', which is seated in abox e2. The spring c enters the tubular shank e3 of the platform e, 6o

and the shank e3 fits snugly into the box c2 and serves to guide theplatform. The shoulders d5 on the rocking lever d are provided withprojections d, which work in grooves in the platform e, which serve toprevent the ,platform from tilting sidewise.

Boxes e2 are set into cross-piece O, which forms part of the casing.

D D are labels placed on the outside of the casing and in front of thejars and bearing 7o the names of the syrups in the jars.

E is a draft-arm for drawing beverages. To draw syrup from the jarmarked Lemom for instance, handle cl2 is pushed toward that label, bywhich movement rod c in front of that jar is raisedby the cam action ofthe arm cl, and rod c lifts valve-rod a2 by engaging with head D, thusopening the valve a and closing valve a', whereby the syrup inthemeasuring-chamberis discharged. When 8o the handle d2 is released, itis returned to its normal position by the action of spring e', and thelifting-rod c and valve-rod a2 return to their normal positions bygravity, thus closinO valve a and o enin@v valve a whereu on 8 D D 9 pthe measuring-chamber is relled, as is now well understood.

To draw syrup from the jar marked Orange, handle cl2 is pushed towardthat label,

thus rocking lever d in the opposite direc- 9o tion and raising rod c infront of that jar, whereby the valves are operated, as before described.This arrangement of the valveoperating mechanism is much simpler thanthat heretofore employed, and the operatinghandle is placed in the mostconvenient position for operation, thus enabling an attendant to servemore quickly. The operatinglOO out departing from the spirit of myinvention and that it may also be altered to operate a` single valveinstead of two adjacent valves without .detraeting from the advantagesof my construction.

What I claim isl. In a soda-water fountain, the combination with theValve-rods of two adjacent syrupjars, of the lifting-rod for eachvalve-rod, the rocking lever for raising said lifting-rods, the handlefor operating said lever,and the spring for returning said lever to itsnormal position substantially as set forth.

2. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination with the valve-rods of twosyrup-jars, of the lifting-rod for each valve-rod, the rocking lever forraising said lifting-rods, a handle for operating said lever, and aspring-pressed plate engaging with the said rocking lever, whereby it isreturned to its normal position, substantially as set forth.

8. In a soda-water fountain, the combination with the valve-rods of twosyrup-jars, of the lifting-rod for each valve-rod, the rocking lever forraising said lifting-rods, the handle for operating said lever, twoshoulders on said lever, and a spring-pressed plate with which eitherone of said shoulders will engage when the lever is operated, wherebythe lever is returned to its normal position, substantially as setforth.

4. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination of the case, syrup -jarsprovided with valves and valve-operating devices Within said case, therocking lever Within said case situated so as to engage adjacentvalve-operating devices, the spring for returning said lever to itsnormal position, the spindle eX- tending through the case and the handleon said spindle outside the case, substantially as set forth.

5. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination of the case, a syrup-jarwithin the case and provided with a valve at its lower end, a valve-rodpassing throughthe jar, an arm extending out from said valve-rod, alifting-rod adapted to engage beneath said arm, a lifting deviceengaging beneath the lower end of said lifting-rod, but unconnected withthe same, and an operating device passing through the front wall of thecase and operatively connected with s'aid lifting device, substantiallyas set forth.

6. In a soda-Water fountain, the combination of the case, a syrup-jarwithin the case and provided with a valve at its lower end, a valve-rodpassing through the jar, a liftingrod adapted to engage with saidvalve-rod, a rocking lever engagingbeneath the lower end of saidliftingrod, but unconnected with the same, and an operating devicepassing through the front wall of the case and operatively connectedwith said rocking lever, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 8th day of July, 1895.

v JOHN ORMEROD. Witnesses:

EUGENE CONRAN, JOHN R. TAYLOR.

